Banking Features
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November 02, 2021, Tuesday
BFSI Insight Summit: Privatisation has to be path-dependent, say panelists
Banking was declared a strategic sector by the government under the new privatisation policy, which means the government will ...
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October 27, 2021, Wednesday
BS BFSI Summit: SFBs should look beyond universal licence, says R Gandhi
Ex-RBI deputy governor says they must become financial conglomerates
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May 20, 2021, Thursday
Ensure FCRA accounts opened for NGOs in 10 days of MHA approval: HC to SBI
The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the State Bank of India (SBI) to ensure it opens FCRA accounts for NGOs within 10 days ...
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May 06, 2021, Thursday
BoB allots Rs 500 cr to Serum after RBI liquidity tap for healthcare firms
SBI, HDFC Bank among lenders gearing up to support companies involved in mitigating Covid-19 outbreak.
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March 13, 2021, Saturday
Indian-Allahabad Bank amalgamation: Changes & all the post-merger details
Despite the pandemic, the Allahabad Bank merger with Indian Bank concluded the final technical amalgamation (software ...
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January 18, 2021, Monday
India Inc's big boys: Share of large borrowers on banks' books decline
However, large advances in the SMA-0 (special mention accounts) category registered a quantum jump (155.6 per cent) over the ...
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December 24, 2020, Thursday
RBI governor asks banks to strengthen lending capacity by raising capital
During a two-day meeting with heads of banks, including the private sector lenders, the governor emphasised on the need to remain ...
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March 16, 2020, Monday
YES Bank okays board reconstitution; Prashant Kumar to be new MD & CEO
The other board members will be Sunil Mehta, former non-executive chairman of Punjab National Bank, as the non executive chairman ...
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September 18, 2019, Wednesday
As bank mergers loom, PSB contractual workers stare at job losses
Most PSBs have already been closing down ATMs, as well as doing away with security guards in the existing ones
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September 01, 2019, Sunday
Technology underlay FM Nirmala Sitharaman's bank mergers decision
Numbers of officers now more than other workers in PSBs
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September 01, 2019, Sunday
Delivering on growth a must for NextGen PSBs to attract investors
Analysts cite examples of SBI and BoB to indicate how the mergers could be value-depletive for investors in the near term
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August 31, 2019, Saturday
Meet Bimal Jalan, the go-to advisor across the political spectrum
One of the reasons Jalan can afford to be forthright is that he has seen it all in his 78 years
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February 20, 2019, Wednesday
Bad debts to break: Challenges, achievements of India's insolvency law
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aimed to speed up loan recovery when it came into force in Aug 2016. Woeful infra and legal ...
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January 10, 2019, Thursday
If officers can unionise, can bank executives also take part in strikes?
For long, banks' managements resisted officers' attempts to unionise
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October 03, 2018, Wednesday
Behind the IL&FS crisis: India hasn't a clue how to pay for infrastructure
The infrastructure projects worth building are those that pay for themselves in the long run
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June 22, 2018, Friday
Govt appoints Arijit Basu as SBI MD after Rajnish Kumar's elevation
Government has appointed deputy managing director Basu as managing director with effect from the date of taking over charge till ...
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June 21, 2018, Thursday
Crisis of confidence in banking provides an opportunity to unleash reforms
The government's response to the issue of bad loans has been to bail out the errant banks with taxpayer's money
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March 09, 2018, Friday
ED seized assets worth Rs 71 bn in bank scam cases in Jan-Feb: Govt
These cases also included cases of possessing disproportionate assets, Union Minister of State for Finance said
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February 21, 2018, Wednesday
How a pin code can nix your loan even if you have a great CIBIL score
If you live in a locality prone to defaults, your potential lender may not approve you loan despite the fact that you have a good ...
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November 07, 2017, Tuesday
Technology yet to catch up with human touch on banking
Use of technology in corporate loans is limited and bankers are getting trained on new skill sets to use them in corporate
